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Rod Blagojevich Washing Dishes In Prison, Will Teach Shakespeare After 90-Day Dish Duty Stint Ends

CHICAGO -- Two of Rod Blagojevich's former attorneys visited the former Illinois governor and say he is washing pots and pans as he begins his term at a Colorado federal prison.

The attorneys said Blagojevich has three cellmates and gets along with all of them.

"The guy that he is bunking with, he likes very, very much," Sam Adam Jr. said. "They've bonded."

New inmates are assigned to kitchen duty for 90 days and Blagojevich has been washing dishes six days a week, the attorneys said.

Blagojevich has been told that when the 90-day period ends he will be teaching either Shakespeare or ancient Greek philosophy and mythology, they said. The ex-governor is known for citing poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson and Rudyard Kipling.

"He is so affable, you forget how educated and well-read he is," Sam Adam Sr. said. "He knows a great deal about Shakespeare."

Blagojevich told the attorneys that the hardest thing is missing his wife and two daughters, they said. Blagojevich told them his family visited and he was upset that the rules only allowed his younger daughter to sit on his lap and his teenage daughter to give him a hug.

Blagojevich reported to prison March 15 to begin serving a 14-year sentence on corruption charges.

Van Der Sloot Gets 28 Years In Prison

Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot is pictured...

As Joran van der Sloot stood before a panel of three women judges in a Peruvian court, he looked confident — and bored — just as he had two days earlier. He even smiled as a judge began reading his sentence.

But, then, when the words “28 years” were read loud and clear, Joran’s demeanor suddenly changed. He wiped the sweat from his brow as his eyes darted from side to side. And then he wiped tears from his eyes.

Joran cried for himself, not for Stephany Flores, a young woman he has admitted to strangling in his hotel room after meeting her at a poker tournament in Lima, Peru.

This time in court, Joran was clearly out of his comfort zone. The now-24 year old was spoiled as a kid. When, as a teenager, he became too unruly for his wealthy parents to handle, they moved him into separate quarters on their property to keep him from harassing his two younger brothers.

Earlier, in the days before his sentencing, Joran was able to stall the inevitable after telling the judges he needed more time before he gave them his “sincere confession.” In Peru, when confessions are deemed “sincere,” defendants are typically sentenced to less time.

Not so for Joran, who’s suspected of also killing teen Natalee Holloway after her disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba, where Van der Sloot grew up and where Natalee had been vacationing with high school friends. He was given just two years less than the 30-year maximum sentence that had been recommended to the court by his prosecutors.

After his sentence was handed down, Van der Sloot was transferred to the high-security Piedras Gordas penitentiary in northern Lima from the Castro Castro prison where he’d been housed before and where it had been been reported that he was enjoying special privileges of Internet access, TV, and cellphone use.

Apparently, that won’t be the case at the Piedras Gordas prison, where Joran is expected to serve out his time in less than desirable conditions until the year 2038. So be it.


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